TNSPay,
formerly branded as CommsXL, is a leading multi-channel payment gateway
service, with a strong reputation for security, reliability and
availability. Pre-accredited
by leading UK and Irish acquirers as well as PCI DSS certified, TNSPay
enables merchants to process EMV Chip and PIN, eCommerce, mail and
telephone order transactions. The fully managed service simplifies
complex payments challenges and allows merchants to reduce the amount of
card data in their environment, helping them greatly in their efforts to
achieve PCI
DSS compliance.

In January TNS announced that it had achieved Payment Application Data
Security Standard (PA
DSS) validation for the point of sale payment client, a component of
the TNSPay gateway solution for multi-channel retailers.

TNSPay now also supports contactless transactions at the point-of-sale,
at a time when this form of payment is poised to expand rapidly in the
UK and Ireland. Major retailers, including The Co-Operative Food, have
recently announced plans to allow customers to make payments of up to
£15 by “tapping” their cards against readers. This removes the need for
cardholders to enter PINs, reduces queue times and potentially helps
retailers increase sales.

TNSPay is also now offering UK and Irish merchants the powerful
capabilities of its Card-Not-Present (CNP) solution which already
provides secure
and reliable payment processing for over 30,000 merchants around the
world. The solution is part of a comprehensive range of payment services
TNS has developed since entering the card transaction processing market
over 20 years ago. These services include payment card settlement,
international payment connectivity services for businesses with
operations outside of the UK, and broadband payment solutions for use in
store operations. TNS now connects over a million merchants and
retailers to the world’s leading banks, acquirers and processors,
enabling secure, efficient and cost-effective delivery and processing of
payments.

Fintan
Byrne, TNS’ Vice President and General Manager for UK and
Ireland, said:

“We chose to include the name of the company, TNS, in the service’s
new name to emphasise some core strengths of the solution, such as its
security and high level of availability – qualities that have become
synonymous with the name TNS in the payments marketplace.

“In an era when multi-channel sales are increasingly vital to
businesses, TNSPay’s versatility demonstrates our ability as an
organisation to support all the routes to market that our customers need
to support in order to grow their business.”

TNSPay provides a flexible centralised platform, offering merchants a
simple answer to the key payment challenges they face. Built on a robust
enterprise architecture, it integrates quickly and easily with the
legacy systems of businesses as well as new applications. In addition to
powerful processing capabilities, TNSPay offers a comprehensive
management information reporting suite, accessible via a secure web
portal.

Mr Byrne said:“The core TNS Secure Payments Network is
leveraged by the TNSPay
platform.This high-availability network spans the globe and has
connections into the world’s leading processors and acquirers. Our
expertise extends to more than 40 countries across the Americas, Europe
and Asia Pacific regions, with billions of transactions crossing our
high-speed global networks each year.”

Transaction Network Services (TNS) is a leading global provider of data
communications and interoperability solutions.

TNS’ offers a broad range of networks and innovative value-added
services which enables transactions and the exchange of information in
diverse industries such as retail, banking, payment processing,
telecommunications and the financial markets.

Founded in 1990 in the United States, TNS has grown steadily and now
provides services in over 40 countries across the Americas, Europe and
the Asia Pacific region, with our reach extending to many more. TNS has
designed and implemented multiple data networks which support a variety
of widely accepted communications protocols and are designed to be
scalable and accessible by multiple methods.

For further information about TNS, visit www.tnsi.com.
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